Annona squamosa L.

(English: Custard apple; Hindi: Sharifa or Sitaphal) of Annonaceae is a small tree

that occurs wild and also cultivated for its edible fruit. Flowers are yellowish-green. Fruits are green,
globose with well-marked areoles. The pulp is sweet in the ripe fruit which is haematinic, expectorant
and tonic and used to treat anaemia. Seeds are many, brownish-black and hard. Leaves and seeds are
used as insecticide and used in destroying lice in the hair. The roots are a powerful purgative.